Tea Leaf Quilt

Instructor: Jan Jolly

Day & Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Tuition: $85.00

Ages: 18 and Up

 **This workshop is for Experienced Beginners: Students should have experience and be comfortable using a sewing machine, be able to cut fabric accurately using a rotary cutter and be able to use scissors to hand cut out their leaves.**

Students Please Bring:

• Fabric (Batiks work best, or a tightly woven regular quilting fabric)
• Your sewing machine (Optional) Olive’s Porch has Janome sewing machines to lend.
• Thread
• Fine sharpie
• 6 1/2” square ruler
• 6 by 22” ruler
• Rotary cutter (some available to borrow from Olive’s Porch)
• Sharp scissors (Some available to borrow from Olive’s Porch)
• Note taking materials.
• (Optional) A snack and/or water bottle. Filtered water is available in the classroom.

Let's have some fun and learn to make a beautiful tea leaf quilt using fusible interfacing and machine applique.  Bring your favorite fabric scraps - Batiks work best because of their tight weave, but regular quilting fabric will work too.  We will hand cut the leaves using acrylic templates and applique them onto background fabric.  Use your creativity to create your own design or just be random like the quilt pictured.

Upon completion of the class, students should be proficient at making tea leaf blocks - knowing the best interfacing for this project, and how to cut and applique them.  The number of blocks each student makes depends on the size of the template they choose.  If a 4" template is used, there is enough interfacing provided to students to make 60 tea leaves, which would make a 24" square wall hanging or 18 X 30" table runner.  They can continue to make blocks at home to make whatever size piece they choose.  For a multicolored quilt like my example, scraps in many colors are desired - 12 1/2" square pieces in ten different colors would be a good starting point - more if they have it available.

There will be a 1-Hour lunch break. Please bring a sack lunch or explore local dining options.

An additional fee for materials provided by your instructor for this workshop is estimated at $25.00 THIS FEE IS PAYABLE TO THE INSTRUCTOR at the time of the workshop. Material fees may change depending on the number of participants and price of materials at the workshop. *Payment by cash or check is required for materials fees. The materials fee covers a set of leaf templates in four sizes and five (9 by 12) sheets of interfacing.

* We contract with local and regional instructors for short workshops that generally require a minimum of 4 students to run. If you have any questions, you’re welcome to call Olive’s Porch for up-to-date enrollment information. To respect our instructor’s time and preparation for workshops please contact us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend a workshop. Cancellations made more than 14 days prior to a workshop will be issued a full refund. Cancellations made 14 or less days prior to your workshop are not eligible for a refund. If Olive’s Porch needs to cancel a workshop for any reason, we will issue a full refund. See our General Information and Policies page on our website for more information.

About Instructor: Jan Jolly has been quilting since 1979.  She moved to Brasstown from Asheville, NC in 2022 and lives just up the road from the Folk School.  Jan entered her first international quilt show in 1999, winning 2nd place for best use of color.  Her quilting has been published several times in “Quick Quilts Magazine”.  Over the years, she has designed and completed hundreds of quilts from simple to advanced heirlooms.  Jan’s quilts, and her personality, are vibrant and infused with joy and love.  In addition to quilting, she also loves crocheting and gardening.